County Durham · DH2
In-school music lessons across Chester-le-Street
We staff it, cover it and record it. Your school keeps its timetable.
Our work in Chester-le-Street is simple to describe: teachers in school buildings, children in groups of one to twenty-one, notes home afterwards.
Of the 18 primary schools in Chester-le-Street, the largest is Cestria Primary School with around 430 children. 2 of them are the size an in-school music service usually runs in.
Nothing extra for your staff to run.
- Government-backed provisionDelivered with music education hubs across England
- Music Hub partnerLocal music education hubs
- Funded places availableSchool and hub funded provision
Teachers, instruments and cover
We staff the lessons and cover them when somebody is ill. Your school does not find a replacement.
Inside the school day
A room and a rotating slot. Groups of one to twenty-one, in term time, so the same subject is never missed twice.
Safeguarding and records held by us
Checks, registers, practice notes and evidence, kept by us and available to your team whenever you ask.
Two payers, and never both
A place is funded by the school or paid for by the family, never part of each. Many schools fund a set number of places and the other families pay. Which applies depends on the school, not on who asks first.
- Primary schools here
- 18
- Towns on the same round
- 3
- Instruments taught here
- 5
- Children in a group
- 1-21
September, the big intake
This week in Chester-le-Street
September is the month Chester-le-Street decides. New year groups, new instruments, and the biggest intake of beginners County Durham sees all year.
KEYS. STRINGS. RHYTHM. VOICE.
What we would teach in Chester-le-Street
A school agrees its own provision with us. These are the instruments our teachers already carry into schools in this part of the county.
Piano
Guitar
Drums
Singing
Ukulele
Groups of one to twenty-one, so a child can start alongside their friends or on their own, and move between the two as they get better.
ONE CLEAR NEXT STEP
From a first conversation to music in a Chester-le-Street school.
One conversation
You name the school. We find out what is already running there, what the funding allows, and what we could put on next term.
A room and a slot
You give us a room and a rotating slot. Nothing else on your timetable changes, and the rotation is what stops one subject losing out.
We staff it and we cover it
Our teachers arrive, teach in groups of one to twenty-one, and we send cover when somebody is ill. Your office is not asked to find anybody.
The records come back to you
Registers, practice notes and safeguarding evidence, held by us and open to your team. We bill families directly; you keep the relationship.
THE REGISTER
Primary schools in Chester-le-Street
The Chester-le-Street schools we hold. Naming yours is the fastest route to a lesson in it.
Every primary school in and around Chester-le-Street, from the Department for Education’s register - 18 of them. 2 are the size we usually start with.
- Ravensworth Terrace Primary SchoolPrimary, around 360 childrenOur usual size
- Cestria Primary SchoolPrimary, around 430 childrenOur usual size
- Bullion Lane Primary SchoolPrimary, around 290 children
- Pelton Community Primary SchoolPrimary, around 290 children
- Barley Mow Primary SchoolPrimary, around 160 children
- Nettlesworth Primary SchoolPrimary, around 110 children
- Newker Primary SchoolPrimary, around 340 children
- Lumley Junior SchoolPrimary, around 190 children
- St Joseph's Catholic Junior School, BirtleyPrimary, around 110 children
- Roseberry Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary, around 270 children
- Chester-Le-Street CofE (Controlled) Primary SchoolPrimary, around 260 children
- Portobello Primary SchoolPrimary, around 180 children
- Lumley Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary, around 140 children
- St Joseph's Catholic Infant School, BirtleyPrimary, around 70 children
- Ouston Primary SchoolPrimary, around 260 children
- Red Rose Primary SchoolPrimary, around 290 children
- St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Chester-Le-StreetPrimary, around 220 children
- St Benet's Catholic Primary School, OustonPrimary, around 220 children
Name yours and we will find out what is possible there - the funding, the room, and what could be on the timetable next term. A school without the mark is not ruled out. It is smaller than the size we usually start with, which is a different sentence.
School names and roll are from the Department for Education’s Get Information about Schools register, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Roll is rounded, because it is a census count that moves every September.
THE SAME ROUND
Near Chester-le-Street
Our teachers travel a fixed weekly round, which is what makes cover possible when somebody is ill. These are the places on the same one.
WHO PAYS, AND WHEN
Who pays for a place
A place has one payer and never two. Which one applies at a school in Chester-le-Street depends on that school and its funding, not on who asks first. Ask and we will tell you what is available at yours.
Funded places available
A school funds a number of places, so those children pay nothing. How many depends on the school and its funding.
Family-paid places
A flat monthly plan, the same every month, with missed lessons made up rather than refunded.
IN MORE DETAIL
More about the service in Chester-le-Street
A page each, written for the question rather than for the search. The same service, answered the way a different reader would ask about it.
ONE CONVERSATION
Put your Chester-le-Street school forward
Name the school and we will find out what is possible there. It costs you a sentence, and it is how most of our partnerships began.